This is dedicated to my Onondaga family and the pride I have in their many contributions including peace, Lacrosse, and gentle leadership in both the Iroquois Nation, and their second home nation, the United States of America. (To read this great blog, just click on the link below, please. I have no doubt you, like me, will learn “the rest of the story” that we weren’t taught in school. )

I see where Seattle has also declared it Indigenous Peoples Day. While i like some of the things that Bartolome did, he destroyed so much of the culture of PreColumbian culture and his fanatic Catholicism opened the way for the horrendous Spanish Inquestion in the New World, which made the Inquestion in Europe seem like a walk in the park.